The Taunton school system will not have February vacation under a new calendar the School Committee adopted Wednesday night for the 2013-14 academic year.

“In the past four years, we’ve had two years with six snow days,” Superintendent Julie Hackett said, explaining the rationale for the new calendar. “Each year we’re getting closer and closer to July.

State regulations prohibit public schools from extending the 180-day academic year into July. With school in Taunton set to let out on June 28 this year due to snow day make-ups, the school system cannot afford to have another cancellation unless it uses a Saturday or Good Friday to make it up.

Under the current teachers’ contract, Aug. 29 is the earliest Taunton can require teachers to report to school, Hackett said.

“We start later than a lot of school systems,” she said.

There was some consideration, she said, given to combining the February and April vacations into a weeklong March vacation, but that was deemed unfeasible due to state testing schedules.

The new 2013-14 calendar, which the superintendent said is in compliance with union contracts, calls for Aug. 29 as the first day for teachers, and June 16 as the last day for students. Although the calendar does away with February vacation, it has the Friday before the Presidents Day holiday weekend as a scheduled day off.

Christmas vacation, April vacation and other traditional days off remain intact under the plan.

In an online survey Hackett distributed to parents, approximately 73 percent of the 1,471 respondents indicated they were in favor of eliminating February vacation, she said.

The majority of unions, including the teachers, indicated a preference for an option that left February vacation intact.